On The Fly: Steelers To Blount: 'Keep Walking'

LeGarrette Blount was released by the Steelers on Tuesday following Pittsburgh's 27-24 win over the Titans on "Monday Night Football."

LeGarrette Blount was released by the Steelers on Tuesday following Pittsburgh's 27-24 win over the Titans on "Monday Night Football."

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On Monday night, Steelers running back LeGarrette Blount left the field before his team's game against Tennessee was over. On Tuesday, the Steelers told him to beat it for good. Blount, who signed a two-year, $3.85 million contract with Pittsburgh after spending last season with the Patriots, was apparently disappointed that he didn't get a carry (Le'Veon Bell was a machine with a career-high 204 yards in a 27-24 victory). Another team will surely sign the talented Blount, who introduced himself to the nation while at Oregon not only with his stellar play but also by punching an unsuspecting opponent and sitting out an entire season while suspended. Since, he's been with four NFL teams in five seasons.

Alabama took over as No. 1 in the College Football Playoff rankings, ahead of Oregon, Florida State and previously top-ranked Mississippi State, which stayed in the all-important top four and remains on track for a playoff berth despite Saturday's loss to the Crimson Tide. Alabama was No. 5 last week. … The Stanford women rode their overtime upset of UConn to the top of the AP poll. The Cardinal moved up five spots to No. 1, followed by Notre Dame, South Carolina and UConn. … Tiger Woods was really ticked off about a make-believe piece in Golf Digest by Dan Jenkins, who wrote how he envisioned a one-on-one interview with Woods would go, so he did some writing of his own. Woods wrote a piece for Derek Jeter's website, calling the Jenkins piece a "grudge-fueled piece of character assassination."

Tiki Barber is all over the airwaves these days, saying Tom Coughlin needs to be fired as coach of the Giants. Barber's entitled to his opinion — and many actually agree with him on the Coughlin topic, to some degree. Still, he retired with a lot of football left in him, a year before the Giants won Super Bowl XLII, and has come across as cranky and bitter toward the organization since. … Cheers to Bills coach Doug Marrone, who was part of a group that freed a snowbound car that was blocking a South Buffalo street. He and the rest of the good Samaritans deserve a hot chocolate. … Giancarlo Stanton's 13-year, $325 million contract with the Marlins is apparently so backloaded that he'll make an average of just $10 million the first three seasons. This gives the Marlins a chance to sign other players and really compete in the near future and virtually guarantees that Stanton will never exercise an opt-out clause and look to sign elsewhere. Even though Stanton will be 30 and in his prime in 2020, would any other teams be offering an average of $31-plus million a season for seven years?